Re: RE: RE: Forrest and CSS [A New skin subprojec

["tom.klaasen@pandora.be" <to...@pandora.be>]

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 forrest-dev@xml.apache.org wrote:
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Dear Tom and Antonio,
>
>>>> I know what you mean. I'm privately working (on and
>>>> off, that is) on a skin that works with div-based layout
>>>> (instead of tables) and CSS in general. The hard part
>>>> is that I'm not the kind of guy you would ask to
>>>> pick colors for you ;-)
>
>Sorry for barging in on your discussion like this... I haven't really been
>following, since I just joined the list.

No problem. The discussion only just started this morning. You haven't missed much.

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>I wonder if this would be related/useful to what you're doing...


Well, you got my attention all right.


>If so, please bring me up to speed on what you're doing and I'll gladly
>share my work/ideas with you.


We're trying to create a forrest skin that doesn't rely on tables and hard-coded colors etc. for layout. I think this falls apart in 2 parts: 
- create an XSL that chops everything in nice chewable divs
- create CSS that makes these divs a breeze to the eye.

I'm trying to achieve the first part by taking the krysalis skin apart, and putting <div> tags in.
For the second part: I only discovered the joy of CSS a couple of weeks ago (hey, I'm a backender). Learning CSS was part of why I started this skin. Any hints or code for doing this right would certainly be welcome.

As for the status: we only found each other today, and we're looking for a CVS repository so that we can work on this together. If you have any suggestions, feel free to spout.


tomK